This blog will post detailed news items about GLBT issues. Some of the issues include the "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and gay marriage. Please note that my main website is DOASKDOTELL.COM (link on my Profile).

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Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!

Sunday, October 12, 2014

The Washington Blade held its 45th Anniversary
party last Thursday Oct. 9 in Washington DC, on 14th Street, to
found a Washington Blade Foundation for research on LGBT history and
journalism. The Facebook announcement
was here , and a story about the new foundation is
here.

I was not able to attend because I had pre-purchased Kennedy
Center tickets that day.

The print issue of the Blade featured a photocopy of the one
page original issue of “The Gay Blade” in October 1969 (while I was in the Army
at Ft. Eustis, and sometimes called a “blade” myself). There was a story asking men to give blood in
benefit to Mattachine, and a warning that police were recording license plates
of cars parked near gay bars in Washington.
There was advice to call Frank Kameny on issues like blackmail, security
clearances, and the military draft.
David Mixner’s book “Stranger Among Friends” had detailed an account
where Mixner was “set up” by the FBI back in 1969.

The Blade went through restructuring in 2009 and 2010 after
its parent company, Windows Media, ceased operating. It first called itself “DC Agenda” until it
got back the legal right to use the “Washington Blade” trademark.

Today, at Mount Olivet Methodist Church in Arlington VA,
rev. Ed Walker mentioned the issue of gay equality as an example where moral
progress in society depends on a lot more than “the greatest good for the
greatest number”. The church has not
been quite as progressive on gay issues as some others until more
recently.

Vox has a story and a map showing in which states getting a same-sex marriage license (a matter of public record) technically can get someone fires, here.

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